Two-minute Time Lord
- Description:
- Two-minute Time Lord is a commentary podcast about the BBC ' s popular family science fiction program, Doctor Who. We ' ll try to keep this context in mind as we review episodes, comment on the news of the moment, and otherwise pontificate: Doctor Who is not FOR a thirtysomething podcaster. It ' s for that nine-year-old behind the sofa. But his or her mum and dad have been invited along for the ride, as are those of us who were kids when Peter Davison first picked up a cricket bat. And we ' ll keep it to two minutes, because we ' re ALL in a hurry.
Homepage: http://twominutetimelord.com/wp
RSS Feed: http://twominutetimelord.com/wp/?feed=podcast
- Episodes:
- 372
- Average Episode Duration:
- 0:0:07:04
- Longest Episode Duration:
- 0:1:35:17
- Total Duration of all Episodes:
- 1 days, 19 hours, 46 minutes and 33 seconds
- Earliest Episode:
- 30 April 2010 (2:46am GMT)
- Latest Episode:
- 17 February 2025 (1:55am GMT)
- Average Time Between Episodes:
- 14 days, 12 hours, 50 minutes and 11 seconds
Two-minute Time Lord Episodes
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2MTL 492: On Free Radios Skaro
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 7 minutes and 46 secondsAn unscripted word of thanks to my friends at Radio Free Skaro.
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2MTL 491: "Keep Up!"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 22 secondsQ: What do Garfield and the Doctor have in common?
A: A possibly contagious sense of superiority.
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2MTL 490: Joy to the World
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 20 secondsA ten-minute sequence stops “Joy to the World” cold, yet turns out to be the heart of the 2024 Christmas special.
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2MTL 489: Disney's World
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsIs Disney the best global partner for showing Doctor Who outside the UK? My doubts are growing.
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2MTL 488: Foundation and "Empire"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 17 seconds“Empire of Death” epitomized RTD’s approach to season finales that he deployed to popular (if not always critical) acclaim during his first stint as showrunner. What happened this time?
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2MTL 487: What's Next for 2MTL
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 58 secondsA check-in after November 5, a promise about Empire of Death, and thoughts about the way forward.
- Mastodon: thatchipguy@zeppelin.flights
- Bluesky: ThatChipGuy
- Threads: William Sudderth
- Facebook: Two-minute Time Lord
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2MTL 486: On Follow-through and "The Legend of Ruby Sunday"
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsIn case you missed me on The Incomparable’s Doctor Who Flashcast, here are some last-minute thoughts about TLoRS and where it fell down prior to the season finale.
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2MTL 485: Dot, Bubble, and Rogue
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThis is a double edition of 2MTL covering “Dot and Bubble” and “Rogue,” two episodes that were absolutely tonally identical and left you feeling exactly the same way after each of them, amirite?
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2MTL 484: 73 Thoughts
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 27 secondsWe’re catching up on the Discourse about a loved and hated mysterious episode. I’m still on Team Love.
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2MTL 483: Hijinkx and Vibes
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 19 secondsFinally, I catch up on “The Devil’s Chord” and hold two opinions at once.
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2MTL 482: With "Boom," Steven Moffat Enters His "Midnight" Era
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 26 seconds“Pace and energy” and high concepts give way to a man with a foot on a landmine for the duration of the story. Tension-filled bottle episodes are rare for Doctor Who, although there are a lot of parallels between this one and 2009’s “Midnight.” How does Steven Moffat’s return to Doctor Who fit with his showrunner’s current experiment?
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2MTL 481: The Space Babies Speedrun
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 29 seconds“Would you like to see the baby?” Your answer probably had a lot to do with how you received “Space Babies,” but the first-or-second episode of new Series 1 had a LOT to cram into a too-small container, and that was an issue as well.
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2MTL 480: Doctor Who is Not Science Fiction
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 42 secondsThe first episodes of Series 1 (not counting the Christmas Special) have finally launched, and there’s RTD upon RTD on top of more RTD in “Space Babies” and “The Devil’s Chord.” We’ll look at these episodes individually soon, but going that hard was a gutsy, even necessary choice.
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2MTL 479: Solid Gold?
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 35 secondsIn which your interlocutor admits that he wishes to hear less of a composer he loves.
A graphics whiz, Chip was not, when he shared this on social media years ago
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2MTL 478: Goblin Corps
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 7 secondsAfter “The Church on Ruby Road,” there should be no question that Ncuti Gatwa will master the role of The Doctor. However, we do need to address the fact that this is now a show with goblins and flying wooden ships….
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2MTL 477: ¿Por qué no los dos?
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 15 secondsCelebrating a regeneration, a retirement, and a renewal of the whole darn series. On to Christmas!
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2MTL 476: Evolution of the Doctor
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 8 secondsHow do you make a special episode “special” when you only have two actors and a big spaceship? Russell T Davies has a pretty good answer.
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2MTL 475: Brandishing the Gravity Stanchions
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 51 seconds
Meep? What I wouldn’t have given for the Meep to give an order to “reticulate the splines.” (Oh, yeah: I loved this one.)
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2MTL 474: Is 14 Greater Than 10?
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 8 secondsYou can’t expect David Tennant to not be David Tennant, but I really want the Fourteenth Doctor to be meaningfully different from the Tenth. I have my hopes, but the Fourteenth Doc comic in Doctor Who Magazine and even the Children in Need short didn’t offer any clues….
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The Reset Button
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 15 secondsThe hiatus between Doctors is near an end, and a podcast born out of a love of David Tennant and Russell T Davies comes out of its own hiatus for their return.
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2MTL 472: "That is a good look on you, Professor"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 24 secondsOn great last words, blossomest blossoms, emotional truth, and whether the plot is king.
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2MTL 471: Long Time Ago When We Was Fam
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 33 secondsBringing the podcast out of mothballs on The Eve of The Power of the Doctor…
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2MTL 470: Something Old, Something New
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 53 secondsIs RTD2 a nostalgia trip? Some thoughts on last week's announcement of Ncuti Gatwa, today's announcement of Catherine Tate and David Tennant, and the merits of old mistakes vs. new mistakes.
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2MTL 469: TIME DILATION: The Streaming Future of Doctor Who
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 19 minutes and 52 secondsJason Snell, co-host of Downstream on Relay FM and head of The Incomparable network of pop culture podcasts, joins me for a look at Doctor Who's future in a world where TV networks struggle to stay relevant and Netflix is losing a bunch of subscribers. The conversation is a "follow-out" from recent discussions on Radio Free Skaro. (Apologies to Jason because I overprocessed his audio.)
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2MTL 468: "Legend of the Sea Devils" and Feeling Closer to "Fine"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 36 secondsWhen you're the sort of person for whom the meaning of "fine" turns from "good enough" to not so much, and maybe you start surrendering to pessimism, even after an honestly revolutionary conversation between Yaz and the Doctor.
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2MTL 467: Parsing Age, Rose/Ten and Thasmin
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 17 secondsThe most tortured podcast episode title I've ever created, plus my Thasmin wishlist for "Legend of the Sea Devils."
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2MTL 466: New Year's Hangover
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 54 secondsThoughts from the heart about a New Year's special that was a small story, coming at a time when I was struggling to come to terms with the last two years–and how I hope to look at Doctor Who anew following a return to Gallifrey One.
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2MTL 465: Re: Flux ("The Vanquishers")
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes and 8 secondsI'm not entirely sure who "The Vanquishers" applies to, TBH. Anyhoo, I took a little extra time to think about Chapter 6, and Flux as a whole, and why I ultimately think this effort to put eight pounds of plot into a six-pound bag succeeded despite itself.
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2MTL 464: Steeling for the Finale ("Survivors of the Flux")
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 3 secondsTomorrow's the finale. Has the moment been prepared for? Chapter 5 left me a little worried.
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2MTL 463: 2MTL 463: The Power of Blinking Without Blinking (“Village of the Angels”)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 52 secondsRecapture the essense of the Weeping Angels from "Blink"? Chibnall and Alderton understood the assignment.
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2MTL 462: Atropositive ("Once, Upon Time")
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 48 secondsSpace opera? Narrative connections and context emerging? Yes, please: this is the episode that gave me faith in Chris Chibnall's arc. (This episode dedicated to the memory of NPR Books editor Petra Mayer.)
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2MTL 461: Sontar…huh. ("War of the Sontarans")
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 37 secondsIn which the laudable advancement of the Doctor Who: Flux story and the "rehabilitation" of the Sontarans as villains bumps straight into how I feel about war movies.
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2MTL 460: The Opposite of Episodic (The Halloween Apocalypse)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 55 seconds
Now this is a story all about how. My life got flipped turned upside down.
Big, bold, and entirely un-self-contained, Doctor Who: Flux's first chapter may not have been the most welcoming to new viewers but is a very proper lead-off to the show's first modern miniseries.
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2MTL 459: Nicole Hill on Russell T Davies's Return
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 12 minutes and 9 secondsNicole Hill of @BlackTARDIS and @blkgirlscreate stops by for a conversation about their hopes and cautions for the new/old showrunner.
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2MTL 458: Pregenerating a Showrunner
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 32 secondsNo one saw that coming. Russell T Davies's first era of Doctor Who is my favorite. What are some of the traps to avoid with his upcoming return as showrunner?
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2MTL 457: About Noel Clarke
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 4 secondsFrom the April 29, 2021, Guardian (UK): ‘Sexual predator’: actor Noel Clarke accused of groping, harassment and bullying by 20 women
You can enjoy Mickey Smith the character in Doctor Who Series 1-4. But don’t defend Noel Clarke the actor.
In an article for the UK Guardian on April 29, 2021, journalists Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne painstakingly gathered and reported 20 allegations from women of being abused by actor, producer, and one-time Doctor Who recurring cast member Noel Clarke.
The women stepped forward following the announcement that he would receive an award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema that month from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In breaking their silence, Kale and Osborne write, the women “allege Clarke is a serial abuser of women, using his power in the industry to prey on and harass female colleagues, and sometimes bully those who fall out of favour.” Following the article’s publication, BAFTA suspended the award and Clarke’s membership.
Any Doctor Who fans who want to venture an opinion about Noel Clarke should read this article first. I’ve linked it on social and it’s in the show notes. The article is damning. You have 20 women, either anonymously for their protection or on the record, sharing their stories of being groped, harassed, and humiliated. A reputable news organization simply does not go there without dotting every I and crossing every T, not when they’d be the likely target of a libel suit.
I once shared a stage with Clarke, interviewing him at Long Island Who. I would never have picked up on him being predatory. But that’s how patriarchy works, hiding in plain sight. Since then, longstanding stories of other Doctor Who actors’ behavior on set have surfaced. Some of them, I didn’t want to believe. I’d read an account of an actress colleague giving one of them a pass for being a lad, or something like that, and maybe I’d tell myself that they all thought that it was in harmless fun, and when that actor returned in a guest role, I’d put the uncomfortable thought away.
Easy for me to do, of course. Women, BIPoC people, queer people, they know better than me. They routinely do the work of distinguishing the art from the artist, and judging what to keep and what to throw away, because they don’t have the privilege of living in a world where the worst thing that happens to them when a popular actor is revealed as a predator is that their enjoyment of a TV show is reduced.
My favorite pop culture properties, Doctor Who, Star Wars, Star Trek, all have an expressly idealistic point of view. They’re humanistic, pro-freedom. They’re about being freaking kind. And in the last couple of years, there have been far too many examples, within these fandoms and even within these franchises, of people who supposedly identify with these ideals failing to walk the walk.
I don’t always live up to those ideals myself, but I’m trying to do it today. You can enjoy Mickey Smith the character in Doctor Who Series 1-4. But don’t defend Noel Clarke the actor. And especially, don’t focus on how his actions affect Doctor Who the franchise, or Doctor Who the fandom. That’s centering your own feelings. There are 20 women—at least—who deserve greater consideration. And we have fandom cultures, and convention spaces, and writers’ rooms, and soundstages, where predatory behavior, patriarchy, racism, and anti-queer bias continue to reign. I’m going to try to put better focus on challenging those wrongs—and less on my own comfort.
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2MTL 456: Long Time Passing
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 49 secondsTen months of silence–ten months of waiting and coping–for Yaz, Ryan, and Graham: When "Revolution of the Daleks" was made BEFORE the pandemic, who knew how relevant it would be DURING it?
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2MTL 455: Throwback Review of "Fear Her"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 19 seconds"Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Chloe Webber?" After a couple of months away to recharge the batteries, there's no more jarring compare-and-contrast to Doctor Who of 2020 than Doctor Who of 2006's "Fear Her."
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2MTL 454: It's Always Time to Engage
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 34 secondsWhy is it difficult for so many fans to engage with Doctor Who's politics?
- Constance Gibbs: "For Black Doctor Who fans, the TARDIS is a legendary, loaded image"
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2MTL 453: Within Our Confession Dials
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 16 secondsThere's been a lot of great Doctor Who content that speaks to the global pandemic thanks to creators recruited and organized by folks such as Chris Chibnall and Emily Cook. But 2015's "Heaven Sent" seems particularly relevant as well…
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2MTL 452: WHO IS THE DOCTOR 2 Makes a House Call (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 30 minutes and 31 secondsGraeme Burk, co-author with Robert Smith? of WHO IS THE DOCTOR 2, stops by to talk about slow-cooker episode criticism in a time of lightning-fast hot takes (not that I'm familiar with that at all) and staying connected with Doctor Who in a stay-at-home world.
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2MTL 451: The Brain, Revisited
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 14 secondsSuddenly, there's much, much more to the Doctor–and yet this new "retcon" to the Doctor's past winds up being staggeringly respectful to everything that's gone before on television. Let's talk about a challenge to The Master–and to Doctor Who fans themselves.
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2MTL 450: Point of No Return
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 29 secondsExecution: pretty darn good! Cybermen: terrifying! Confidence that Part Two will stick the landing: (flailing gestures)?
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2MTL 449: Two Things About "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 0 secondsOn emotional Cybermen and erstwhile flat team structures.
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2MTL 448: The Most Important Story
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 48 secondsSometimes, the plot isn't the point and the bad guys are a side issue. Sometimes, the point is how humans treat other humans.
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2MTL 447: The (Other) Three Doctors
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 49 secondsA mostly solid story by McTighe and Chibnall, but I'm REALLY here for a Doctor-ish Yaz and a Doctor-ish Ryan.
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2MTL 446: Gallifreyan Nature
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 55 secondsThat sound you heard was a podcaster's brain exploding, trying to figure out how to compress everything from "Fugitive of the Judoon" into roughly two minutes. Listener, this episode was A LOT.
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2MTL 445: A Two-fisted Tale of Tesla
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 40 secondsWould you believe, Nikola Tesla in the TARDIS? Now that's just nuts. (See also theincomparable.com/radio)
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2MTL 444: Percolating on "Orphan 55"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 1 secondIt took longer than two minutes to explain–heck, longer than six days to figure out–why "Orphan 55" confounded me.
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2MTL 443: Looking Backward Too Soon
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 27 seconds"Spyfall Part Two" was a strong conclusion to the opening Series 12 two-parter, but there was one creative decision I'm wary of, and another that really should have been done differently.